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This week's featured movie showing at the Kino is Joy, the wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes a woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper . . .

We will be nigh on drowning in cider this autumn, if the ceremony at The Oak last weekend was anything to go by

This week's featured film showing at Rye Community Centre Film Club on Friday January 8 is "Far from the Madding Crowd". Set in Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three different suitors

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Stormtroopers were seen in Rye between Christmas and New Year, raising speculation about a full-scale alien invasion

One of the expectations of Rye's Christmas celebration was that people came in Dickensian costume, if they could, from Victorian times - and they did!

In the historic parts of Rye Christmas is celebrated sedately - with some wonderful windows

Murder, music and mayhem - Lamb House has been at the centre of events in the town in 2015

This week's featured film at the Rye Kino - "The Dressmaker" based on the best-selling novel by Rosalie Ham, this bittersweet, comedy-drama is set in early 1950s Australia. Kate Winslet (pictured) is Tilly Dunnage, a beautiful and talented misfit, who, after many years working as a dressmaker in exclusive Parisian fashion houses, returns home to right the wrongs of the past....

A busy day for Heidi Foster as she reports on the magic and musical offerings in Rye and around last Sunday

Christmas was celebrated in Northiam with a musical evening

The show finally drew to a close on Sunday December 20 for Rye Dance Centre as they were "Down in the Woods" over the weekend